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    z60 Advanced Dock - ExpressCard

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by svtxchinoy, Nov 11, 2005.

  1. svtxchinoy

    svtxchinoy Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey all

    I'm new to the PCI Expresscard technology. I am looking into purchasing a new Thinkpad, I currently use my companies T41p (which is great, probably the best laptop I've ever used). It's a toss up for me between the Z60t and m. I like the portability of the t, but I also want the graphics capability of the m. From what I understand about Expresscards so far, if there is a higher end expresscard graphics card out, I can plug that into a expresscard slot on a notebook and it will be using that as the grahics card, instant upgrade. Since the z60t doesn't have a slot, but the advanced dock does, in theory, would putting the graphics card in the advanced dock be able to upgrade the graphics on the z60t while it is docked? Hope you guys can answer.
     
    svtxchinoy, Nov 11, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I doubt you can upgrade the GPU via the dock.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 12, 2005
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    The ExpressCard technology will be replacing the PCMCIA slot and is NOT a way to upgrade a graphics card just as the PCMCIA port is NOT.

    Here's an FAQ on the ExpressCard: http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/qa.jsp

    You would not be able to upgrade the graphics card via the ExpressCard slot on any machine or dock. It's just a slot for stuff like wireless cards, flash memory and all those other things you can use a PCMCIA card for out there right now. At the moment there aren't many ExpressCard accessories out there so it's a bit of a "nice to have" but not necessary thing.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Nov 12, 2005
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